Callum Angus is a trans author whose books include the story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press 2021), the nonfiction chapbook CATARACT (Fonograf Editions 2024), and STREAM: Living in Flux (Northwestern University Press in 2027.) Since 2019 he has been the publisher of the journal smoke and mold, which publishes nature writing, broadly defined, by trans and Two-Spirit writers. Cal has taught and lectured at universities and independent organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada for over a decade, and in 2025 introduced the new teaching and publishing ecosystem celiumlit.net. He lives and writes between two rivers in Portland, Oregon.